1950's Science and Technology | "Mutable Loci in Maize"

Essay

By: Barbara McClintock

Date: 1987

Source: McClintock, Barbara. "Mutable Loci in Maize." Annual Report of the Director of the Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institution of Washington Yearbook, No. 49, December 15, 1950, 157–167. Reprinted in The Discovery and Characterization of Transposable Elements: The Collected Papers of Barbara McClintock. New York: Garland, 1987, 204–205.

About the Author: Barbara McClintock (1902–1992) was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and received a Ph.D. in zoology from Cornell University in 1927. As a graduate student she studied the genetics of corn, a project that absorbed her throughout her career. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1933, served as vice president of the Genetics Society of America in 1939 and president in 1944, and won the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology in 1983.

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